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D. N. SMITH. Safe for Provisions, 8L0.

No. 225,653. Patented Mar. 16,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID N. SMITH, OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA.

SAFE FOR PROVISIONS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,653, dated March 16, 1880.

Application filed September 8, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID NOBLE SMITH, of San Bernardino, in the county of San Bernardino and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safes for Provisions and other purposes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of safes for receiving vegetables, food, clothing, and other similar articles, the object of the invention being to prevent the access of insects to the articles placed within the safe.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a vertical section of my improvement; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same on line a; 00, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the frame of the safe, which is here shown in an octagonal form, though this particular form is not essential, as any polygonal form of frame maybe used. The frame is provided with a top, a, and bottom a, and, as here shown, it is covered with wiregauze b. For this wiregauze covering, however, may be substituted mosquito-netting or any other open material when a free circulation of air is required, and when not canvas, oil-cloth, or other similar and suitable material may be employed.

To give ingress to the safe a door, 0, is provided, hinged and rabbeted to the frame-work, covered like the casing A, and furnished with a lock or latch, as may be preferred.

B B are top and bottom shelves, and O are intermediate shelves, of which any desired number may be used. These shelves are connected together by the posts 01, &c., fastened to the top and bottom shelves, B B. On the top shelf, B, at its center or axis, is secured a cup, D, from the center of which rises a short shaft, 6, leaving a receptacle, f, around it. This shaft. eforms the upper pivot, and it enters the socket g, secured in the center of the top a.

To the bottom a of the safe is secured a cup,

D, in the center of which is a socket, h, and around this socket is a receptacle, f.

To the bottom shelf, B, is secured a short shaft, 2', which enters the socket h and forms the lower pivot.

In the top of the safe is placed diagonally, so as to extend from the perimeter nearly to the center thereof, a tube, j, one end of which is outside the safe, and is provided with afunnel-shaped opening, while the other end terminates just over the receptacle f of the cup D. To the bottom shelf, B,is attached a similar tube, j, having a funnel-mouth, and running through the shelf, so that its lower end stands just over the receptacle f in the cup D. Through these tubes a suitable liquid is conveyed to the cups D and D.

As will be readily seen, the only communication between the bottom and top of the safe and the shelves must be through the pivots e and i, and as these enter the respective cups they are surrounded by the liquid-receptacles f and f. As these are filled with liquid it follows that insects entering the safe cannot get to the shelves, as the liquid in the cups intercepts them, and thus articles placed on the shelves are protected from their depredations.

The shelves revolve freely on their axis, and thus they can be readily filled with material from the single door 0.

The bottom of the safe is provided with knobs or feet K; butif it is wished to make it movable, casters may be substituted.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- A safe having tubes j and j, in combination with the receptacles ff in the cups D D, respectively, whereby liquid can be conveyed to the said cups without removing the shelves from the safe, substantially as hereinbefore described. 1

DAVID NOBLE SMITH.

Witnesses G. H. CARTER, J AMZES SPROAL. 

